Total Joint Center of Excellence Scorecard

Advanced Comprehensive Joint Certification Measures 2025/26 Inpatient

Patients who are able to walk on the same day as surgery have faster recovery. This is a measurement of hip/knee replacement patients with documented walking on the day of surgery as a percent of all hip/knee replacement patients.

THKR-1 Regional Anesthesia

  Goal Feb '25 Mar '25 Apr '25 May '25  June '25 July '25 Aug '25 Sep '25 Oct '25 Nov '25 Dec '25 Jan '26
Hip 90% N/A N/A N/A 100% 100% 100% N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A 100%
Knee 90% N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A 100% 100% N/A 100% 100% N/A
Overall 90% N/A N/A N/A N/A 100% 100% 100% 100% N/A 100% 100% 100%

THKR-2 Postoperative ambulation on day of surgery within 4 hours of discharge from PACU

  Goal Feb '25 Mar '25 Apr '25 May '25 June '25 July '25 Aug '25 Sep '25 Oct '25 Nov '25 Dec '25 Jan '26
Hip 90% N/A N/A N/A 0% 0% 100% N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A 100%
Knee 90% N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A 0% 0% N/A 100% 100% N/A
Overall 90% N/A N/A N/A 0% 0% 100% 0% 0% N/A 100% 100% 100%

THKR-3 Discharged to Home

  Goal Feb '25 Mar '25 Apr '25 May '25 June '25 July '25 Aug '25 Sep '25 Oct '25 Nov '25 Dec '25 Jan '26
Hip 90% N/A N/A N/A 100% 100% 100% N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A 100%
Knee 90% N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A 100% 100% N/A 100% 0% N/A
Overall 90% N/A N/A N/A 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% N/A 100% 0% 100%

THKR-4 Preoperative Functional/Health Status Assessment

  Goal Feb '25 Mar '25 Apr '25 May '25 June '25 July '25 Aug '25 Sep '25 Oct '25 Nov '25 Dec '25 Jan '26
Hip 90% N/A N/A N/A 100% 100% 100% N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A 0%
Knee 90% N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A 100% 100% N/A 100% 100% N/A
Overall 90% N/A N/A N/A 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% N/A 100% 100% 0%

THKR-5 Postoperative Functional/Health Status Assessment

  Goal Feb '25 Mar '25 Apr '25 May '25 June '25 July '25 Aug '25 Sep '25 Oct '25 Nov '25 Dec '25 Jan '26
Hip 80% N/A N/A N/A 100% N/A N/A 0% N/A N/A N/A  -
Knee 80% N/A N/A N/A N/A 100% N/A N/A 100% 0% 100%  - -
Overall 80% N/A N/A N/A 100% 100% N/A 0% 100% 0% 100%  - -
*From 11/25 to include ambulation on day of surgery.

Advanced Comprehensive Joint Certification Measures 2025/26 Outpatient

THKR-1 Regional Anesthesia

  Goal Feb '25 Mar '25 Apr '25 May '25 June '25 July '25 Aug '25 Sep '25 Oct '25 Nov '25 Dec '25 Jan '26
Hip 90% 72% 90% 65% 92% 100% 100% 90% 100% 92% 100% 95% 93%
Knee 90% 86% 68% 83% 100% 97% 100% 90% 96% 96% 100% 100% 100%
Overall 90% 81% 73% 77% 98% 98% 100% 95% 98% 95% 100% 98% 98%

THKR-2 Postoperative ambulation on day of surgery within 4 hours of discharge from PACU

  Goal Feb '25 Mar '25 Apr '25 May '25 June '25 July '25 Aug '25 Sep '25 Oct '25 Nov '25 Dec '25 Jan '26
Hip 18/21 86% 14/18 78% 12/15 80% 68% 94% 70% 82% 72% 72% 77%
Knee 38/40 95% 36/43 84% 48/52 92% 86% 88% 87% 81% 93% 87% 89%
Overall 56/61 92% 50/61 82% 60/67 90% 78% 90% 79% 82% 85% 79% 85%

THKR-3 Discharged to Home

  Goal Feb '25 Mar '25 Apr '25 May '25 June '25 July '25 Aug '25 Sep '25 Oct '25 Nov '25 Dec '25 Jan '26
Hip 90% 100% 100% 94% 100% 100% 95% 100% 100% 100% 96% 100% 93%
Knee 90% 100% 100% 94% 93% 97% 93% 100% 100% 92% 100% 100% 93%
Overall 90% 100% 100% 94% 95% 98% 93% 100% 100% 95% 98% 100% 93%

THKR-4 Preoperative Functional/Health Status Assessment

  Goal Feb '25 Mar '25 Apr '25 May '25 June '25 July '25 Aug '25 Sep '25 Oct '25 Nov '25 Dec '25 Jan '26
Hip 90% 100% 18/18 100% 14/15 93% 95% 100% 100% 94% 95% 100% 77%
Knee 90% 98% 43/43 100% 51/52 98% 100% 100% 100% 93% 97% 96% 93%
Overall 90% 98% 61/1 100% 65/67 97% 98% 100% 100% 93% 96% 98% 88%

THKR-5 Postoperative Functional/Health Status Assessment

  Goal Feb '25 Mar '25 Apr '25 May '25 June '25 July '25 Aug '25 Sep '25 Oct '25 Nov '25 Dec '25 Jan '26
Hip 80% 39% 31% 31% 25% 36% 26% 29% 55% 42% 31% - -
Knee 80% 35% 29% 31% 39% 27% 24% 29% 23% 24% 37% - -
Overall 80% 37% 30% 31% 34% 29% 25% 29% 35% 31% 35% - -
*From 11/25 to include ambulation on day of surgery.